Electramaniacal

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by Allison James (NAL)
See also HellDrivers by chock32.

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Attempt at a font that mixes triangular and rectangular glyphs. Some words don't look too great in it but on the whole I'm pleased with the result!

23 Comments

Great! I like your sharp style. Not sure about J, maybe M could be improved too.
Comment by V. Sarela (Yautja) 9th may 2012
Excellent sharpness as usual. Even if the typography is obviously different , i can't help thinking to the legendary Master of Puppets from Metallica!
Have you tried a more regular increased spacing between words ? I think this "nospace" style adds more confusion than style, actually.
Comment by Abneurone Fluid Types 9th may 2012
Thank-you both for your kind feedback! Specific replies:

@Yautja I agree with you on the J, it was the last letter glyph I added. I guess I just preferred something more leftfield to my original plan of a simple right angle (á la the H/T). The M was mainly so Ms and As together created a sort of "thunderbolt" image, exactly why I chose to include "ama" in the font name (it doesn't show this in Fontstruct sadly, though it will anywhere the default font preview is the name of the font, in the font).

@Abneurone Fluid Types
I think the irregularity and tight spacing is something I've adapted from looking at, and drawing inspiration from, various dubstep/electro artist logos. It seems to be pretty common, even though in some cases (especially thanks to how many of them have bizarre names) it becomes almost illegible.

For the next one (I'm sure there'll be one haha) I'll play around with clearer styles and see if I can maintain the electro/dubstep look while giving the letters room to breathe and the text it makes easier to read.
Comment by Allison James (NAL) 9th may 2012
@Yautja this is the preview image I have, which better demonstrates the choice of "M" in the font. :P
Comment by Allison James (NAL) 9th may 2012
Ok, that works.
Maybe the J could be a vertically flipped 1? And the 4 could have a diagonal line (like C with a vertical stroke)
Comment by V. Sarela (Yautja) 9th may 2012
Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “Electramaniacal” is now a Top Pick.
Comment by Rob Meek (meek) 10th may 2012
@Yautja I've edited the lower-case "j" to your suggestion, it does look better. Cheers!

@meek Thanks, really chuffed you think it's good enough to warrant that!
Comment by Allison James (NAL) 10th may 2012
zig-zag dynamic!
Comment by four 14th may 2012
Sharp!
Comment by thalamic 15th may 2012
I find this type of design a bit... an oxymoron! The diagonal lines works good for a "electro/dub" feeling but vertical lines breaks the concept! As a modular type, you can improve the soundness doing glyphs similar, like m and n, and changing glyphs like i and t (for exemple: iti seems a m!) keeping up the legibility and the readibility.
I like how this font has no space and made some vertical lines left there, like in "D and E" or "F and G"!
Comment by cablecomputer 4th june 2012
ouch, it is sharp :-P
Comment by kur41 4th june 2012
very cool!
love MNX
Comment by Michel Troy ~UrbanPixel~ (Upixel) 26th june 2012
Wow. Nice work! Great font for logos. :D
Creative
Comment by jjwarfield12 28th june 2012
I love this font. Thank you.
Comment by jimhotep 31st july 2012
Very good font. It's great how some of the sides of the letters are vertical and some are slanted. But if you want to type a vertical glyph and a slanted glyph, it doesn't work as good. Maybe you should put alternates in the lower-case slots to solve this problem? That is what I did in my clone of Vermin Vibes Redux.
Comment by truth14ful 31st july 2012
Here it is:
Comment by truth14ful 31st july 2012
That M is awesome.
Comment by minimum 17th august 2012

This is the first font from Fontstruct(found on dafonts) that I would see in use. State of Mind game. It is very cool. Happy New year to you!

Comment by Dmitriy Sychiov (Sychoff) 31st december 2018
Comment by Dmitriy Sychiov (Sychoff) 31st december 2018

https://www.dafont.com/forum/requests.php?d=6231

you can visit this page to see NAL's fonts in use

Comment by kassymkulov 31st december 2018

Oh, cheep, I think someone is trying to resell your font as vector alphabet via shutterstock.. As I dont think this is you, right?

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/gray-wall-alphabet-693012292

Cheers

Comment by Sed4tives 31st december 2018

I see...

Also, someone (chock32) published an unchanged clone of your font

Comment by anonymous-1520403 1st january 2019

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